About me

Dr Nina Evans started her career as a Chemical Engineer and while working towards registering as a professional engineer (PrEng), she completed additional Computer Science courses followed by an Honours degree in Computer Science. She also completed a Diploma in Education, two Masters' degrees (in Information Technology and an MBA) and a PhD in Organisational behaviour. Dr Evans has worked in various Higher Education Institutions as Lecturer, Industry Liaison Manager, Associate Head of School, Head of Department and Vice Dean.
Her major fields of interest are the promotion of fusion on the business-ICT interface i.e. to bridge the gap between the person with a business need and the technology expert with the solution to the problem.... Read more

About me

Dr Nina Evans started her career as a Chemical Engineer and while working towards registering as a professional engineer (PrEng), she completed additional Computer Science courses followed by an Honours degree in Computer Science. She also completed a Diploma in Education, two Masters' degrees (in Information Technology and an MBA) and a PhD in Organisational behaviour. Dr Evans has worked in various Higher Education Institutions as Lecturer, Industry Liaison Manager, Associate Head of School, Head of Department and Vice Dean.
Her major fields of interest are the promotion of fusion on the business-ICT interface i.e. to bridge the gap between the person with a business need and the technology expert with the solution to the problem. This implies a thorough understanding of the business, management, leadership and human behaviour aspects of organisations. She also does research in Information and Knowledge Asset Management, Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs), especially in regional areas. Dr Evans currently supervises six PhD students.
Dr Evans believes that the IT profession is not only about technology, but to a great extent about people - it has been said that “IT is more about psychology than technology”. Apart from the important technology skills, IT professional should understand the management and general “people behaviour aspects” of the technology world.
Dr Evans is an associate for the consulting group ThinkingFusion and trained facilitator of their Executive Leadership Program. In 2007 she was a Senior Lecturer at the University of South Australia (UniSA), Centre for regional Engagement, Business and Regional Enterprise Unit.
Dr Evans is currently employed as the Associate Head of the School of Information Technology and Mathematical Science (ITMS). In this role she is responsible for all Teaching and Learning-related matters, with a focus on the quality of teaching and the student experience. Apart from the management role, she also teaches postgraduate courses (Masters level) in IT Stakeholder Engagement and Knowledge Mangement as well as ICT Leadership (doctoral level). Her research is done within the Strategic Information Management (SIM) lab of the School of ITMS. The focus of my current research is Information Asset Management, Knowledge management, Business-IT fusion and Organisational Behaviour.

Experience

Qualifications

Research

Research themes

An age friendly world

Transforming industries

Research focus

Information Systems

Business and Management

Library and Information Studies

Applied Economics

Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services

Highlights

Business-IT fusion,IT strategy and management,Roles, knowledge, skills and attributes of IT/IS professionals,The scholarship of teaching,Small business management: Sustainability of small business in regional Australia,Organisational behaviour in the world of IT/IS,Women in ICT,Strategic Information Management and Knowledge Management,Corporate Social Responsibiltiy (CSR),Information Asset Management,Affective teaching and learning,Risk management in Australian Libraries,Organisational behaviour

Current research & highlights

Business-IT fusion,IT strategy and management,Roles, knowledge, skills and attributes of IT/IS professionals,The scholarship of teaching,Small business management: Sustainability of small business in regional Australia,Organisational behaviour in the world of IT/IS,Women in ICT,Strategic Information Management and Knowledge Management,Corporate Social Responsibiltiy (CSR),Information Asset Management,Affective teaching and learning,Risk management in Australian Libraries,Organisational behaviour

External engagement & recognition

Other

Teaching & student supervision

Highlights

Dr Evans has taught the following courses:
,Information Systems, Computer skills, Systems Programming, Software Development, Operating Systems, Business Fundamentals, Business Management, Entrepreneurial Enterprises, Strategic IT Management, Strategic Information Systems, Project Management, Information Systems Professional Practice, Research Methodology and ICT Leadership.
,She presented the following industry workshops:
,October 2003 - The professional profile of business- and systems analysts. Presentation to the Business- and systems analysis special interest group (BASA SIG) in Johannesburg, South Africa. A similar session was hosted in Pretoria upon request of a number of companies in this region.
August 2004 - Empowering women through ICT. Presentation at a Knowledge Upgrade Management conference in Sandton, South Africa.
July 2006 - Perceptions of women in ICT. Presentation at the workshop on Women in ICT, as part of the Women in ICT project, sponsored by the government of Finland.
,August 2005 - A closer look at the Business-ICT Interface: The promotion of fusion. Invited guest lecture for MBA programme at the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB).
,August 2011. Collaboration in Organisations. Guest lecture presentation for the course IS Collaborative Systems M, University of South Australia.
,April 2007 – Leadership in a changing business world. Public address at the graduation ceremony of the Whyalla campus of the University of South Australia.
,February 2009. The Sustainability of Small Businesses in Regional South Australia through Social and Environmental Responsibility: A Collaboration between Higher Education and the Whyalla Economic development Board in South Australia. Report to Whyalla Economic Developnment Board (WEDB).
,November 2010. Sawyer, J. and Evans, A. CSR and Regional Small Businesses. Poster presentation at Beyond Periphery Conference held at CRE. Charles Darwin University and UniSA.
,December 2010. Evans, A , Price, J and Hey, N. Information governance: challenging but critical, especially in difficult times. ARK Group 3 hour Workshop presentation. Sydney, Australia.
,May 2011. Evans, A. The Management of Intellectual Assets. Presentation at the AlphaWest executive breakfast for senior managers. Adelaide, Australia.
,July 2011. Price, J. and Evans, A. 2011. Shining the light. SA Mines and Energy journal. South Australian Chamber of Mines and Energy.
,November 2011. Deploying information assets in organisations: a CIO perspective. Workshop following CIO forum. Columbia, South Carolina, USA.
,June 2012. Evans, A . and Price, J. Information management and governance for the public service. Australian Computer Society and the ARK Group 3 hour Workshop presentation. Sydney, Australia
,September 2012. Athar Mahmood Ahmed Qureshi and Nina Evans. Building a resilient knowledge culture. Workshop for ARK Knowledge huddle. Melbourne, Australia.
,October 2012. Nina Evans and Rob Malcolm. Business-IT fusion: A shared world view. ACTKM industry conference, Canberra, Australia.
,March 2014. James Price and Nina Evans. Business Considerations of Obtaining Data Quality. 3 hour workshop at DQ Asia Pacific Conference, 25-27 March, Melbourne, Australia.
,April 2015. James Price and Nina Evans. The barriers to effectively managing data, information and knowledge as a business asset and what to do about them - why change management is important, IAIDQ and DQ Asia Pacific, 22-23 April, Melbourne, Australia.